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Case Reports
. 2011 Mar;23(3):E37-9.

"Bilateral knuckle" technique and Stingray re-entry system for retrograde chronic total occlusion intervention

Emmanouil S Brilakis  1 , Neeraj Badhey, Subhash Banerjee
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Case Reports

"Bilateral knuckle" technique and Stingray re-entry system for retrograde chronic total occlusion intervention

Emmanouil S Brilakis et al. J Invasive Cardiol. 2011 Mar.
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Abstract

We report a novel technique for retrograde chronic total occlusion intervention, in which the lesion is crossed by forming and advancing a "knuckle" in both the antegrade and retrograde guidewire, followed by reentry in the true lumen by using the Stingray re-entry system.

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